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I haven’t done a doofy story in a while, so here ya go…

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A Chicago robber who planned to hold up a South Side convenience store is in police custody Tuesday after officials said he shot himself in the foot and was then stabbed by the store’s owner. The injured suspect, who was not identified by Chicago police, attempted to rob the Brighton Mini Mart at around 3 p.m. Monday with an accomplice, the Chicago Tribune reports. During a struggle with the store’s 24-year-old employee, the robber’s gun went off, striking his foot. The 61-year-old store owner then wounded the robber by stabbing him in the back, the paper said. The robbers fled the scene, but the injured man was arrested while trying to obtain treatment at a local hospital, the paper said. His accomplice has not been found. The store’s employees sustained cuts to their hands, the Tribune said.

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You know, some ass lawyer for this idiot is probably going to sue the gun company for his injuries because they didn’t print, “This End Up” on the barrel or didn’t have proper usage instructions in the box or something equally as stupid. I just think it’s awesome that not only does the idiot shoot himself in the foot, but he gets stabbed on top of it.

You know, I always wonder when I hear about stuff like this, if the guy actually woke up thinking it was going to be a good day? I mean, he gets up, gets dressed (without bathing probably), eats some Cheerios, abuses his toilet and then goes out to hang with his buddy. They sit around for a while, and then one of them gets the bright idea to go rob a convenience store. Hey, awesome idea! I’ll go get my gun and then we’ll go get us some green! A half hour later the guy’s limping around with two new holes in his body that he didn’t have when he walked in there, and he’s probably thinking, “Awww man, now I gotta go to the hospital, and I didn’t even shower this morning!” The only thing that would have made it complete is if he drank something and started squirting out of the holes like a cartoon character.

Stupid? Yes.
Will he ever do it again? Probably.
Will I post it here when he tries it again and shoots himself in the other foot? Definitely!

Anyway, I’ll start looking around and see if I can dig up more fun stuff to post about. I’m kinda tired of all these heavy posts I’ve been doing lately. I want to lighten things up a bit.

Long story here, but basically I ordered a Schecter C-1 FR guitar. It was on backorder and I’ve been waiting weeks for it. Well it was supposed to come last Thursday, but all UPS brought was the hard shell case I ordered for it, which was an SKB universal case because I read that the one from Schecter wasn’t that great. So Thursday comes around and they bring the case and no guitar. So I call UPS and they said there was only one item in the shipment. So then I call Musician’s Friend and they tell me the items got split up at the ups hub and they got a different tracking number for the guitar and it should be there on Friday, which it was.

So I get the guitar on Friday and it’s just incredible. It’s an absolutely gorgeous guitar, flawlessly constructed with an amazing finish and set up. Anyway, I played it for a while to try it out, and then I get done playing it and I go to put it in the new case I got for it, and it doesn’t fit! The way the head stock is shaped makes it about an inch to an inch and a half too long for the case.

Needless to say I was both pissed off and exasperated.  So I very carefully take it out and get in the car with it and have my wife drive me down to Guitar Center to get a case for it that does fit, only to discover that all of their cases are too short too! So I came back home, set up a return for the case I bought and ordered a Schecter case through Guitar Center’s website. It’s actually not the one people said was crappy though. It’s a different one that’s more generic that will fit the C-1 series guitars…supposedly.  It cost me $33 friggin’ bucks to send back the other case.  I asked Musician’s Friend about that since I only ordered the case because one of the reviews said that someone bought it for their C-1 Hellraiser and it fit perfectly.  Obviously it doesn’t because the C-1 FR is the same shape and neck length.  So this douchebag cost me $33 bucks and a week without a case for my new guitar.  Musician’s Friend gave me $25 in store credit to kinda cover me on some of that, which I guess is cool, but I wish they had just refunded me the return shipping, because that was BS.  Still, at least it’s something.  I can use it to buy some shielding tape for my Fender bass.

So basically it’s been a big hassle and my gorgeous new guitar is now sitting on a stand in the living room until I can get a case for it, which makes me paranoid because I keep all my instruments in hard shell cases when I’m not playing them.

I have a Schecter Stiletto Custom 4 bass on back order too which should be here early next month…hopefully, but fortunately I ordered a Schecter case for it which was made for that particular model since it’s shaped a bit differently than a standard bass, and even differently from the other Schecter Diamons Series basses.  So I won’t have any problem there. Thing is, that case is on back order too, so I’m not sure when it’ll be in. Hopefully it’ll get here before the bass though.  I REALLY hate having my instruments sitting on stands when I’m not playing them.  I’m really paranoid about that kinda stuff.

Now, on to other things…

Last week, the whole freakin’ media had a meltdown over who Obama was going to choose as his running mate.  They had different possible selections staked out and that’s all we heard about in the news…ALL DAMN DAY!  Every time I heard about it I was like, “Who the hell cares?  It’s one douchebag choosing another douchebag as his running mate.  What the hell’s the big deal, and really, who the hell cares if they’re the first one to announce it to the world?”  I mean jeez, it REALLY doesn’t matter.  And then who does the idiot choose?  Who does Mr. Change and Mr. Bring Everyone Together choose?  Joe Biden, one of the biggest partisan, politically entrenched jerk offs in the Senate.  Way to go Barry, you hypocritical bastard!  You talk about bringing people together, yet you’ve never been willing to work with the other side on compromises and then you choose a hugely partisan ass as your running mate.  I think that should pretty much tell everyone everything they need to know about you.  You’re a typical lying bastard who just spews out inanely mindless rhetoric to the even more mindless idiots who are lining up to drink your Kool Aid.  I’m actually glad this is going on though, because the more this stuff goes on, the more people come to realize what a lying bastard he is.  That’s why that jerk off McCain is basically tied with him right now, even though most people thought Obama would be way ahead at this point.  I can’t stand McCain, but I’d sure as hell vote for him over that damn socialist/communist Obama if it would keep Obama out of office.

Then they have that stupid Democratic convention.  Ted Kennedy got up there and talked tonight.  He gave this big speech about whatever the hell he was talking about, and people were just like, “Ooooooooh…ahhhhhhh….,” just showing how mindless those people are.  This jerk off left a pregnant girl to die people, and then got off just because of who his family was!  He not only deserves his brain tumor, but he deserves to live out the rest of his days as a friggin’ vegetable for what he did, plus all the other corrupt stuff he’s done over the years.  Oh, but just because he has a brain tumor, all that stuff is forgotten and he’s made out to be some kind of a hero to be admired because he showed up at the convention to give a speech despite his battle with cancer.  Yawn…  Don’t get me wrong here, I REALLY feel for people with cancer…as long as they deserve my sympathy.  Most people do, but he sure as hell doesn’t.  As far as I’m concerned, he deserves no better.

Why do I sound so bitter and angry?  Because, I remember what this country used to be.  We used to be free.  Now, we’re living under constant oppression from the government both financially and socially, and people like him and Obama and all the other jerks in our government are responsible for it.  They don’t care about individual freedom or the Constitution anymore.  All they care about is pandering to special interest groups and throwing our tax money around with all their earmarks in an effort to get themselves re-elected time after time after time.  That’s all that matters to them.  They’ve sold themselves heart and soul to corporate and special interests, which leaves the rest of us broke, oppressed and wondering where the hell our freedoms have gone.  It makes me sick what’s become of this country.  I try not to think about it, but damn, it’s impossible not to.  I remember back when Reagan was president.  I was actually proud to be an American.  Now I wonder what happened to the America I used to be proud of.  It’s really sad.  The only way it’ll ever get better though is if all the people get together and decide we’ve had enough and vote every last one of them out and install third party candidates that actually believe in the Constitution and personal freedom.  Sadly, people are so wrapped up in partisan loyalty and so afraid that a third party vote would be a throw away vote, that it’ll never happen.

Then we have the one-issue religious Republican idiots trying to force McCain to choose a “pro-life” running mate.  I’ve made my feelings about abortion clear many times.  It’s NOBODY’S damn business except the mother and the father.  If they choose to terminate the pregnancy, that’s their decision, and often it’s a damn hard and emotional decision, and the procedure itself is very painful.  It’s hard enough on them without a bunch of religious idiots trying to stick their noses in.  They just refuse to accept the fact that Roe vs. Wade is settled law.  It’s done.  Get over it and move on with your own lives instead of looking for things to bitch about in other people’s lives.  We need a strong nationalist as president, not a friggin’ evangelical minister.  A President is elected to take care of the national affairs of the country, not to help you idiots put forward your socio-religious agenda.  We’ve had many presidents who “said” they were anti-aborition, yet none of them do a damn thing about it.  Why?  Because they can’t.  The Supreme Court decided that issue and it’s just done.  So for you people to use abortion as a litmus test on who you’re going to vote for is not only pathetic, it’s just stupid, and you all need to get over yourselves and start putting your country first.  If you can’t do that, then maybe you all should leave and buy an island or something and form your own theocracy where you can all sit around and thump your bibles and pray to your imaginary friend while the rest of us try to live our lives without your interference.

Ok, I’ve bitched about that stuff enough.  I’ll move on to something else now…

My friend Darwin and his family are moving back her from Arizona.  They’ll be back for good next Saturday.  I’m looking forward to that for a variety of reasons, and I hope they have a smooth trip.  Just going between here and where we lived in Northern California was hard enough, but moving all the way from Arizona and having to drive all that way…man, that’s a bitch and a half.  Especially with four kids.  Hopefully they’ll make it ok.  I certainly wish them the best of luck with the trip.

I have a few web jobs coming up early next month finally.  I’m glad too, because I’ve spent a lot of money on music gear lately and I need to pay it all off.

My right hand is bleeding right now between my middle and third finger.  Don’t ask.

Oh, we saw Hellboy II the other day.  It was really damn good.  The part where Hellboy and Abe got drunk was just awesome. :D  The guy who played the elf prince was really familiar looking.  I need to go look up who he was when I finish writing this.  We need to get over there and see the new X-Files movie too this week.  I know it’s gotten so-so reviews, but I still wanna see it.

Lastly, they’re cancelling Stargate Atlantis after the end of season five and pushing it off to movies like they did with SG-1.  It’s really pathetic.  The idiots in charge over there are going to kill off whatever viewership that network had left.  No Stargate = No Viewers.  Too bad the idiots in the suits have no concept of that.  They pull in their massive salaries while bitching about how much it costs to make those shows.  Let’s see how much they bitch when the network shuts down because all they’re showing are crappy shows and even crappier Sci-Fi Original Movies.  No one wants to watch that stuff.  They want Stargate, and if they’d bother to ask the viewers what they want, they’d likely get an earful from a whole lot of pissed off people.

I guess I’ll wrap this up now.  There was a lot of other stuff I intended to talk about, but the moment’s gone on most of them now because I was too lazy to get on here and write anything at the time.  I’ll try to get in here and post more often.  I know it’s been a while since my last one.  What can I say?  I’m lazy.

Ok, it’s been a while since I posted, so this is gonna be a mixed bag.  Here goes…

I’ve recently ordered a new guitar, a new bass and a hard shell case for each.  I ordered all but one of the cases from zZounds.com who I highly recommend as they have free shipping and don’t charge tax unless you live in New Jersey, unlike Guitar Center which charges both.  They’re also super great to deal with.  I even found a price on the bass today that was $50 cheaper than anyone else was selling it for, and they price matched it for me with no problems at all.

Anyway, the guitar I ordered is a Schecter C-1 FR.  I’m getting the gloss black one with the black chrome hardware.  They also sell the Schecter case for it.

The bass I ordered is the Schecter Stiletto Custom 4.  I’m getting the new Vampyre Red colored one.  They don’t carry the case for this one, so I had to order it from Musician’s Friend.

So what’s the bad part of all this?  All four items are on back order, so who the hell knows when they’ll ever ship?  I have like zero patience when it comes to waiting for stuff, and especially when it’s stuff this awesome.  I’ve seen scheduled dates for this stuff on some sites listed as 8/15, which is this Friday.  Hopefully that’s the case and all their stuff that’s on back order everywhere will suddenly appear.  I can only hope.

As for the long day I had, I got a call at about 11:30 this morning.  I was sitting there happily playing some Def Leppard tunes on my 5-string bass, when suddenly the phone rings.  It’s my sister.  She asks me what I’m doing and I tell her I’m sitting there playing my bass.  Then she tells me that she messed up her knee really bad last night.  Ok, sucks for her.  That’s pretty much where the sucking ended for her and started up for me though.

See, my sister is stupid.  She has a bunch of horses standing around that do nothing and serve no apparent purpose other than to eat, which brings me to the point where my day started sucking.  Seems that she bought like 250 bales of hay for the damn things, which is supposed to be enough to last through the winter.  The suck part comes in right at the point where she messed up her knee and then called to ask if I could come out to help unload the crap from the truck because the guy who delivered it wanted his truck back tonight.  Apparently our mom and dad were out there trying to do it.  Now my mom is like 76 and my dad is 78 and has had a variety of major health problems including infections and problems with his heart.  He also has trouble moving around and walks with a cane much of the time.  So these two were out there trying to figure out how to unload this flatbed trailer full of 250 bales of hay stacked six layers high and weighing about 100 pounds each.  So I had to have Sharon leave work a couple hours early so I could go out there to help.

So I get out there, and I look at this damn flatbed full of hay.  It was massive, and I had no clue how to even start because the top of it was way the hell high off the ground.  There really was no way to unload this thing except to throw them off the truck onto the ground and hope the bales didn’t come apart.

The first thing I did was to pull out a couple of bales in the front.  Then I pushed out a couple more with a long 2×6 board, which toppled the bale above them.  That at least gave me some steps on which I could climb up so I could start working.  At this point I got up there and started tossing down the bales on the top layer…in 100 degree heat I might add.

After a while, my niece’s fiance arrived and started helping load the stuff that was on the ground into a trailer and hauling it back to where the hay was to be stacked.  My mom helped him with that somewhat while I was still on the truck tossing down bales.  The long and the short of it is, I managed to toss off three of the six layers of hay, so about 125 bales, and then helped load and stack about two or three loads before I was just completely and utterly physically spent.  I was absolutely soaked from head to toe with sweat and covered in hay chaffe.  God knows how much of that crap I breathed in too.

So I ended up leaving there about 8:30 tonight and getting home about 9:30, exhaused, filthy and hungry.

That’s pretty much it for now.  I’ll post some more later when I’m recovered.

Well, I had a bit of a surprise this weekend.  See, I have a Fender bass I bought back in, oh christ…it must have been like 1989 or thereabouts.  Well, a long time ago…like, a really long time ago, I had Fender Lace Sensor pickups put in it along with a Fender TBX tone control.  Fast forward to 2008.  I’ve been getting seriously back into music again, and to that end, I’ve recently purchased a variety of new stuff, including an Alesis SR-18 Drum Machine, a Digitech GSP1101 guitar processor, a Schecter C-1 FR guitar with a Schecter hard shell case (both on back order until the middle of August) and a new set of DiMarzio Split P DP127 pickups for my Fender bass.

Now, the reason I replaced the pickups is because the Lace Sensors, while nice sounding in the low end, they were kind of airy and lacking presence in the mid to high end.  The TBX tone control also seemed to cause excess static / noise in the signal.  Whether that was due to the pot being bad or the capacitor being bad I have no idea, but I’ll get to that later.  The DiMarzio pickups have a lot more presence and are “hotter”, meaning they send out a lot stronger signal than the Lace Sensors.

So, I got them on Saturday when I was actually expecting them on Monday, so that was a nice surprise.  I went to Radio Shack and bought a new soldering iron and some solder and came back home with all intentions of doing this quickly so I could enjoy my new pickups.  Boy, was I deluded.

So I open everything up and take out the electronics.  I remove the old volume pot and solder in the new one I had bought with the pickups.  Little did I know the pot was…well…there was something funky about it, or something funky about the way I was wiring it, I don’t know.  In any case, I ended up after lots of trial and error without ever getting it working right, I finally realized that the post on it was too big to fit through my pick guard anyway!  So, that basically forced me to abandon that pot to the scrap pile.  Mind you, this was after about two hours of frustration and repeated soldering.  I then went down to Guitar Center and I picked up a 500k volume pot because that’s what was recommended for these pickups.  This pot (like the other I just tossed) replaced my original 250k one.  This one worked like a charm.  Oh, and did I mention I got no wiring diagram with the pickups and couldn’t find one online?  Gee, thanks DiMarzio!  Anyway, that’s why there was so much trial and error.

Now, I get the new volume pot in and wired up and everything is wired correctly now.  So I take it over and test it out.  There seems to be a grounding issue.  It’s always had it ever since I had the TBX tone control put in, but I never really knew what was causing it.  It just created this kind of static / crackling noise that would dim down or go away if I touched the strings.  So I pulled off the bridge and checked and re-seated the grounding wire.  That was fine.  Then I opened it all up again and re-soldered the grounding wire, tested it again, and it still had the problem.  Jump to Sunday…

I went out with Sharon Saturday night for our 11th anniversary.  I needed a break from all the frustration anyway.  Sunday came and I had decided to replace the TBX tone control with a regular tone pot.  This took some research, because I knew what capacitor rating I was looking for, but I didn’t know about types of capacitors, how to wire them properly etc…  I spent Sunday morning researching all that.  I also found out I needed to use a linear taper pot for the tone, and wouldn’t you know it?  Guitar Center didn’t have any!  What a shock!

So I go to Radio Shack and get some capacitors, a spool of 22 gauge wire (which I used to replace some wiring, including the ground wire, and a few other things.  Then I went down to Guitar Center to get an audio taper pot.  The people working in there are REALLY not knowledgeable about guitar electronics.  They sold me a pot that they insisted would work fine as a tone control.  I also bought some new knobs, because my old ones wouldn’t fit on the new pots.

Now, I come home.  I take out the old tone control, solder the capacitor on the new one and then wire the new one up to the volume control and ground wires.  I take it over and test it.  Now I have two issues.  The noise is still there, though not as bad as before, and the tone pot they insisted would work is basically an all or nothing pot.  You can get a bit of gradient with the tone in the very beginning of raising it, but after that there’s no noticeable difference.  It jumps straight to sounding like it’s all the way on.  Now, at this point I was just like, “Screw it!  I only use the tone all the way up or all the way down anyway, and it does both, so I’m not even gonna mess with it.”  Maybe someday I’ll take it to a guitar tech and have a linear pot installed, but for now it’s fine.

But what about the noise?  Well, the only thing I hadn’t done was replace the wires to the output.  So I replaced the ground wire to the output and re-soldered the hot wire to make sure it had a good connection.  I tested it again and it still had the problem.  The only thing I can think at this point is that it’s some kind of a shielding issue, but I know nothing about shielding stuff, and the sound isn’t even noticeable while you’re playing, so screw it.  It did get better, but it’s picking up some interference from somewhere.  I just need to figure out where.  Anyway, at this point I was just done.  All that running around, buying extra stuff, hours of work and experimenting with stuff…I was REALLY just done.

So I put it all back together and went to sit down to play.  I still have some height tweaks to do on the pickups possibly, but I think I got them pretty close to where they need to be.  These pickups are really hot, so I need to keep them quite a bit away from the strings, otherwise the signal will distort.  Anyway, I also had to make a few adjustments to my bass patches because these pickups sound a bit different than the old ones did.  It’ll still take some tweaking here and there, but I’m really happy with the sound of my new pickups.  They have a lot of presence and don’t suffer from that “airyness” in the mid to high end.

Anyway, this whole experience sort of turned my weekend into a stressy nightmare.  I feel bad about that too because we were supposed to be celebrating our anniversary and having a good time.  I didn’t expect this whole thing to turn into a two-day stress fest.  Oh well, at least it’s over now.  Oh, and I discovered that I am actually good at soldering.  You just have to have the right iron and the right solder for the job.

So that’s it.  Now I just need my new guitar to get here and then I’ll be pretty much set.

Oh by the way, this weekend actually started off Friday night with me putting my drum set away in the closet and cleaning the living room, including vacuuming.  I was just trying to re-organize things a bit so we have more room in there.  I haven’t really been playing them anyway for now because I’ve been focusing more on getting better at guitar.  The nice thing I’ve noticed is that the better I get at guitar, the better and more creative I get on bass.  The juices are flowing again, now I just need to do something with them.

That’s it for now.  Hope you all had a nice weekend.

Hey folks,

Well, after a bit of a delay due to severe mental exhaustion, the August issue was finally posted yesterday. A bit of a note too for those who haven’t seen the announcement. Comments are no longer allowed on the articles due to a massive spambot attack that I had to clean up. I’ve now disabled all the comments on the articles and created a new section in the forums for people to discuss the content in the magazine. So if you see anything you’d like to comment on, please do it there.

Anyway, here’s what we have for you this time around…

Contest Results:

Find out who won last month’s Wicked Pixel giveaway!

Interviews:

Jonathan Grant
Philip Pugh
Zack Parker
Tracy Coogan

This Month’s Sleepover Girl:

Rachel Grubb and Brooke Lemke, the girls behind Silent-But-Deadly Productions are this month’s Sleepover Girls. They did a fabulous 40’s style pin-up shoot, and we’ve got some shots hot off the presses. You can also find out more about their production company and what the’ve been up to.

Articles:

Josh Samford gave us two articles this month. One about the oppressiveness of the movie ratings system, and one about some great crime movies he’d like to recommend to everyone.

Brian Morton is sick of seeing bad films continuing to be put out by the Hollywood machine just because people actually go to see them. He’d like to know just who the hell is watching these films anyway?

Danny Runion throws a bunch more movies in his movie blender this month. Check out what he’s blended up for us this time.

Movie Reviews:

305
All Along
Attack of the Slime People (two reviews)
Bloodwine
Brutal Massacre
Codex Atanicus
The Vampire’s Tomb
For a Few Marbles More
In Darkness
Random Lunacy: Videos From the Road Less Traveled
Salvation
Texas Snow
The Car
Death Valley

So head on over to Rogue Cinema (http://www.roguecinema.com) and check out all the goodness in this month’s issue.

Hope you all enjoy it!

My wife sent me this quiz thing to find out how I’d rate as a 1930’s husband. Here is my result. There’s a link here too so you can try for yourself. There are two separate tests, one for men and one for women. Try it out and see how you’d rate as a 1930’s husband or wife. Just for reference, my wife scored a -2.

82 As a 1930s husband, I am Very Superior Take the test!

ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia  —  A Romanian immigrant gave birth to her 18th child in British Columbia, making her the province’s most prolific mother in 20 years.

Proud dad Alexandru Ionce said Saturday that his 44-year-old wife, Livia, gave birth on Tuesday. Their daughter Abigail weighed in at seven pounds, 12 ounces (3.5 kilograms).

“We never planned how many children to have. We just let God guide our lives, you know, because we strongly believe life comes from God and that’s the reason we did not stop the life,” said Alexandru Ionce.

The couple immigrated to Canada from Romania in 1990 and now lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Their 17 other children range in age from 20 months to 23 years old.

Ionce said he did not know if the couple would have more children. The family now has 10 girls and eight boys.

“We would have liked a boy to be even,” he said. “We thank God all of them are healthy and happy.”

Ionce said the family has received calls from Germany, Romania and England, as well as from media outlets across Canada.

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Gee thanks morons.  Thanks for over-populating the world even more than it is with 18 kids that will all breed exponentially, and many of them being idiots like you two will have as many kids as “god wants them to have.”

First of all, this idiot’s wife looks like she’s about 65, not 45.  Gee I wonder why?  Could it be because she’s been used as a baby bag repeatedly for years on end?  Could it be pre-mature aging from all the physical, mental and emotional stresses of having all those kids?  Could it be because she’s married to an idiot that believes that god gives life, yet it didn’t give us birth control so we could procreate responsibly?

Then there’s the increased costs, loss of resources, loss of open space to house these people, increased school populations in already overcrowded schools, etc…

How much do you wanna bet these people are getting some kind of government assistance?  If they’re not, then the kids are growing up without much of anything, including food apparently, because unless these immigrants are hella rich, there’s no way they could be supporting 18 kids comfortably.

What about when they want to go to college?  Oh wait, I guess we don’t need that.  It might remove some of the ignorance and actually make them responsible citizens of the world.  Oh heaven forbid!

There’s an American couple who had like 16 kids that I slammed hard a couple of years ago, and several idiots took offense to my slamming them for having so many kids.  Well frankly, I’m sick of people pumping out huge numbers of kids and making everything more expensive for those of us who don’t have any.  A huge chunk of my property taxes goes to school stuff.  Well why not make my tax smaller since I don’t have kids, and charge people like this PER CHILD on their taxes since they’re the ones using the system.  Then someday if we ever do have ONE child, we’d pay a bit more on our taxes too.  It’s the only fair way to do it.

Anyway, I’m sure people will slam me for this.  I honestly don’t care.  This crap was just irresponsible and ignorant.  If you wanna have a few kids, fine, but EIGHTEEN???  People get in trouble for hording pets.  Why don’t they get in trouble for hording kids as well?  Idiots.

A Sandy man took offense to a motorist, who, after getting him to roll down his window, asked, “Excuse me, sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?”

After hearing the request for Dijon mustard, the 22-year-old driver pulled a black handgun from his glove compartment, cocked the weapon and pointed it at the three people in the other car.

“Here’s your Grey Poupon, roll your [expletive] windows up,” he responded.

The confrontation happened June 18 at the intersection of 900 East and Winchester Street (6500 South) in Murray, court documents state.

One of the three people in the car wrote down the SUV’s license plate number.

Murray police later located the man, who admitted to an officer that he pulled out the gun, racked the slide and threaten the other car.

He was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony.

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Holy crap that’s funny.  Personally I think the three people in the other car should have gotten away scott free on this though.  They were after all the idiots who instigated it.  That’s the problem with our world.  People can run around being idiots and jerks to whoever they want and get away with it since no one’s ever able to fight back against it without getting in trouble.  We should all be allowed like five legal ass beatings a month or something.  If someone’s being an ass, you’re allowed to beat them, and when the cops show up you just tell them they were being an ass, they tick one off your count in their little book and then go on their merry way.  I bet there’d be a whole lot less people out there being asses.

This story was out of Utah too.  I guess it took place in a town called Sandy.  If you read the first line though, it’s like, “A Sandy man…”  Now, is that the town, or a descriptive term, because this guy definitely sounds like he’s got a sandy vagina.

Anyway, I’m gonna go take a shower now and wash the sand out of my own vagina…er…mangina…or whatever. XD

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!  This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while now!!!

I couldn’t have written something this funny.  The topic line of this post is an actual part of the quote from the guy too. XD

The best part is…there’s a pic with the article that just absolutely explains everything.

Go read it now.  NOW I tell you! XD

Yes, every once in a great while I get a new toy for myself.  For every hundred or so small things Sharon gets for herself, I get one big thing.  This time, that one big thing was a rather expensive piece of new music gear.  It’s a Digitech GSP1101.

Since..christ, maybe 1989 I’ve been using a Digitech GSP2101, which was and still is just an awesome guitar multi-fx processor and pre-amp.  I used it for both guitar and bass, and have been completely satisfied with its performance over the years.  So much so, I’ve actually collected myself three of them just in case one ever decides to crap out on me.

For years, Digitech has crapped out on supporting that unit, despite its legions of loyal fans, and has instead been focusing a lot on floor pedals and such.  Well now with the GSP1101, they’ve finally come out with a new rack mounted effects processor.  So how is it?

Well to put it simply…it’s freakin’ awesome!

I’m not going to get into all the technicalities of it, but its capabilities are just simply amazing, and the sound quality is nothing less than beautiful.  I actually had planned on using my 2101 for bass and using the 1101 strictly for guitar, but I made a bass patch on it tonight, and inside of five minutes I had a gorgeous sounding bass patch going.  It still needs some EQ tweaking on that one, but it was really quick and easy to put a good sounding patch together for it.

The unit also has firmware updates now and then that expand its abilities and add new ones, plus it has a software editor and a usb port so you can plug it right into your computer to edit the patches if you want.  Doing it that way is way cool, but it also means taking the unit out of my rack and bringing it in here since I don’t have a laptop, which is a pain.  The software editor is excellently written and makes working with the patches a breeze.  If however you choose to edit your patches from the front panel, that’s also extremely easy.  In a VERY short period of time you’ll be an expert at maneuvering around the extremely well laid out and simple to use menu system.

I didn’t really mean for this to sound like a review, because it’s not.  I’m just saying, this thing is awesome and I’m extremely happy with it so far.  It’s also been taking up a lot of my time, along with a few other things lately, which is why I haven’t posted much.  One of those other things being the playing of music, which I’ve been enjoying very much.  I’ve been playing guitar almost exclusively lately.  I’ve been trying to get better at it and I can see a noticeable improvement in my playing, so I’m just going to keep plugging away at it with my new processor egging me on.

I had something else going on this week that hasn’t been so awesome… - jury duty.

Man I hate this crap.  I am SO against the jury system.  Your average schmuck has no clue about the science and technology behind evidence gathering and processing, much less any real knowledge of the law.  I guess back when they came up with the jury thing and the cases were simple, as were the people, it worked ok.  Science and a massively bloated legal code have made juries obsolete though, and it’s about time we did a way with that archaic system once and for all and replaced it with a panel of judges hearing the cases instead, since the judges know enough about everything involved in legal matters to make rational and reasonable decisions.

Anyway, my number came up today but the case settled, so I didn’t have to go.  They told me to call the next couple of days though.  I called tonight, but they moved on to the next set of numbers, so I think I’m off the hook this time around!  Woohoo!!

I would write more, but I’ve barely had any sleep lately and I’m not all that focused at the moment.  I’ll post something again soon.